17 points burglins | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 14:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source

I visited my bank's website and it hit me. For some reason, their crappy website design appears as more trustworthy than other, sleeker designs of modern banks. Why is that?

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JohnFen ◴[21 Oct 24 14:59 UTC] No.41904916[source]▶

>>41904669 (OP) #

I know that in general, the flashier a thing is -- that is, the more obvious effort that has been put into a thing's aesthetics -- the less likely that thing is to be great.

My hypothesis is it's because time and money investment was put into aesthetics at the expense of making the product or service better.

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1. handfuloflight ◴[21 Oct 24 21:03 UTC] No.41908504[source]▶

>>41904916 #

I think this becomes less the case as good design and aesthetics become table stakes.

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